A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.

While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.

But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.

The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire.

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